Adolphe Boucard

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Adolphe Boucard (1839 – March 15, 1905) was a French ornithologist who collected extensively in Mexico and Central America. He concentrated on collecting hummingbirds and sold scientific bird skins to Natural History museums and supplied the plume trade. He published the periodical The Hummingbird (1891–95). He spent his later years in England on the Isle of Wight and died at his son's home in Hampstead.

Species named after Boucard include Boucard’s Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi (also known as Slaty-breasted Tinamou) assigned in 1859 by Philip Sclater.

References

[1] Kofoid, Charles, 1923 A little known ornithological journal and it's editor Adolphe Boucard, 1839-1904 Condor 25:85-89

• Mearns B.and Mearns R., 1998 The Bird Collectors. Academic Press, London.
• Rounds R.S., 1990 Men and Birds in South America 1492 to 1900. Q.E.D. Press, Fort Bragg, California.

External links

• Zobodat

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